Rail-tie support



P 1927' V L. L. WEBSTER RAIL TIE su1=j?oRf'1 Filed A1121. 5,- "211926" Attorney lniven tor Z..[. Weszer;

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Patented Apr, 25, 1927.

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RAIL-TIE SUPPORT.

Application filed August 5, 1926. Serial No. 127,365.

This invention relates to an improved article of manufacture which may be conveniently described as a, rail tie support.

The invention has more particular reference to a railway appliance of this class which is adapted for use more particularly beneath a rail joint.

Usually, where a rail joint occurs 1n the track, the incessant pounding of the wheels of the cars upon this track causes the rail end to sag slightly. This is due partially to the sinking-of the ties into the comparatively soft road bed. 7

What I aim to do is to provide a novel, simple, and inexpensive structure to extend beneath several of the ,"ties adjacent the' rail joint for maintaining these ties in alinee ment and preventing, to a limited extent, sinking of the same in the ground.

The particular construction for accomplishing this result will become apparent from the following description and drawings.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a top plan view of a fragmentary portion of a railway track structure showing the improved support associated therewith, Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device per se.

In the drawings, the reference characters 1 and 2 designate the rail ends which'are shown connected together by customary fish Therail tie 4L beneath these joints and the two ties on opposite sides of the joints are designated by the reference char acters 4, and it is these ties that the 1mproved device serves to support in particular.

Adjacent ties 5 cooperate in accomplishing this result. The device per se is desifrnated by the reference character 6 and it comprises a sturdy metal plate '2' Wl'llCll,lIl

I practice, is about one foot in width. The

opposite end portions of this plate are directed upwardly at right angles as at 8 and the extremities are directed at right angles to the portions 8 as at 9 in order to extend in parallelism with the body portion .7.

These portions 9 constitute what may be conveniently designated as attaching ears, and it will be noticed that they are provided with elongated slots 10 for passage of the customary spikes 11. -The reference char acter 12 designates insulators which are dis posed between the base of the rail and the a metallic end of the ears, to prevent.ground-' ing of the current which is sometimes passed through the rail.

In practice the central body portion 7 of the plate is disposed beneath the under sides of the ties 4, thus bringing the shoultical faces of the ties 5 and permitting the attaching ears 9 to rest upon the tops of the ties 5. The device is fastened in place by the same spikes which serve'to hold the mu ends in position. The purpose of the slots is to allow some slight lateral play of the device to accommodate irregularities in the distributing the stresses and strains, and

prevents embedding of-the tie ends of the comparatively soft road bed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim'as new is:-

'der forming portions 8 in contact with ver- In a structure'of the class described, in

combination, a railway track including a plurality of rail supportlng ties disposed in usual spaced relation, rail ends-supported upon said ties and having their adjacent ends in approximate abutting relationship, a rail oint between said ends; and a support comprising an elongated plate under the intermediate ones of said plurality of ties and having its end portions directed upwardly at right angles to provide shoulders for abutting the end ones of said plurality of ties and having its extremities disposed at right angles to said shoulders to form attaching ears to be engaged with said end ones of said plunality of ties on the tops thereof, said ears being provided with apertures for passage. of retaining spikes.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

LYMAN L. WEBSTER-f 

